The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Dh"talik!
Dh"talik! (f.) [Dimin. of dh"t!; cp. dh"tik! & pottha- lik!] a doll Vin iii.36, 126 (d!ru˚); DhsA 321; PvA 16.
Dh"tik!
Dh"tik! (f.) [cp. dh"talik!] a doll Th 2, 374 (=dh"talik! ThA 252).
Dh"na
Dh"na see adh"na.
Dh"yati
Dh"yati [Sk. dh"yate, Pass. to dahati1] to be contained ThA 13 (so read for dhiyati); PvA 71.
Dh"ra
Dh"ra (adj.) [combining in meaning 1. Sk. dh"ra "firm" fr. dh!rayati (see dharati & dhiti); 2. Vedic. dh"ra
"wise" fr. d"dheti (see dhi2). The fluctuation of connotation is also scen in the expls of Coms which always
give the foll. three conventional etymologies, viz. dhikkitap!pa, dhiti -- sampanna, dhiy! (=paññ!ya)
samann!gata Nd144#(see dhi2)] constant, firm, self -- relying, of character; wise, possessing the
knowledge of the Dhamma, often=pa*.ita & Ep. of an Arahant D ii.128; S i.24 (lokapariy!ya' aññ!ya
nibbut! dh.), 122, 221; Sn 45, 235 (nibbanti dh"r!), 913 (vippamutto di&&higatehi dh.), 1052; It 68
(˚upasevan!, opp. b!la), 122 (dh. sabbaganthapamocano); Dh 23, 28, 177 (opp. b!la); Th 1, 4; 2, 7
(dhamm!=tejussadehi
-- 342 --
ariyamaggadhammehi ThA 13); J iii.396; v.116; Pv ii.16; ii.945; Nd1 44, 55, 482; Nd2 324 (=jutimant);
Miln 342; KhA 194, 224, 230; DhA iii.189 (=pa*.ita).
Dhuta
Dhuta (& Dh(ta) [cp. Sk. dhuta & dh(ta, pp. of dhun!ti] 1. shaken, moved D!vs v.49 (v!ta˚). -- 2. lit.
"shaken off," but always expld in the commentaries as "one who shakes off" either cvil dispositions
(kilese), or obstacles to spiritual progress (v!ra, n"vara*a). The word is rare. In one constantly repeated
passage (Vin i.45=305=ii.2=iii.21=iv.213) it is an adj. opposed to kosajja lazy, remiss; and means either
scrupulous or punctilious. At D i.5 it is used of a pain. At Sn 385 we are told of a dhutadhamma, meaning a
scrupulous way of life, first for a bhikkhu, then for a layman. This poem omits all higher doctrine and
confines itself to scrupulousness as regards minor, elementary matters. Cp. Vism 61 for a defn of dhuta. --
anga a set of practices leading to the state of or appropriate to a dhuta, that is to a scrupulous person First
occurs in a title suffixed to a passage in the Pariv!ra deprecating such practices. The passage occurs twice
(Vin v.131, 193), but the title, probably later than the text, is added only to the 2nd of the two. The passage
gives a list of 13 such practices, each of them an ascetic practice not enjoined in the Vinaya. The 13 are
also discussed at Vism 59 sq. The Milinda devotes a whole book (chap. vi.) to the glorification of these 13
dhutangas, but there is no evidence that they were ever widely adopted. Some are deprecated at M i.282, &
examples of one or other of them are given at Vin iii.15; Bu i.59; J iii.342; iv.8; Miln 133, 348, 351; Vism
59 (˚kath!), 65 (˚cora), 72 (id.), 80 (defn); SnA 494; DhA i.68; ii.32 (dh(tanga); iv.30. Nd1 188 says that 8
of them are desirable. -- dhara mindful of punctiliousness Miln 342 (!raññaka dh. jh!yin). -- vata the vow
to perform the dhutangas DhA vi.165. -- v!da one who inculcates punctiliousness S ii.156; A i.23; Miln
380; Vism 80; ThA 69; DhA ii.30. -- v!din= ˚v!da J i.130.